In pictures: 30 years of Super Mario

Adding brother Luigi as a mere colour palette swap from the original plumber, the first Mario Bros. for the arcades was a different kind of platformer set beneath the sewers of New York City. Instead of ascending to save a damsel-in-distress, you were tasked with eliminating waves of enemies in each ‘phase’ over multiple stages of difficulty. Released during the time of a video game industry crash between 1983 and 1985, the game didn’t release as a major success, but has since received some modern love; having been recreated as a stage in the popular Super Smash Bros. series